A visual record of the projects I am currently working on, the materials I have found to experiment with, and my reflections on the objects, books, cards, prints, gifts, and other stuff I make.

Monday, 7 March 2011

On your recommendation

In December I signed up to take part in Beau Beausoleil's call to book artists for an inventory of Al-Mutanabbi Street. Here are the full details of the project.

I am hoping that the idea I am working on will capture that spirit of the book that he describes, and demonstrate the value of the bookseller by pitching us all as 'sellers' in our recommendations to others.

I have begun to collect book reviews along with a bit of data from a range of friendly contributors. I am intending to print these on A6 index style cards, kept as looseleaf within a custom made folder. The idea being that the reader could browse for a review but the book title and author would not be displayed, only the ISBN, and they would get a brief idea of who was recommending it in order to help them decide whether to follow it up.

More on the printing process later. If you would like to contribute a review please get in touch!